Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
From the record
“The Vaucluse Historic District, located in Vaucluse, South Carolina in Aiken County. The district includes the mill, number of accompanying buildings, and over eighty mill village homes.”
Wikipedia article Vaucluse Mill Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Aiken County · listed in 1996 · category: District.
National Register reference number.96000494- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
496 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 496 fires within 5 miles of Vaucluse Mill Village Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,344 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 53 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
158
Debris and open burning
154
Misuse of fire by a minor
57
Arson/incendiarism
53
Equipment and vehicle use
28
Natural
19
Railroad operations and maintenance
9
Smoking
8
Recreation and ceremony
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Other causes
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
30 workings within 5 miles of Vaucluse Mill Village Historic District: 18 past producers, 8 unknowns, 4 producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Vaucluse, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A NWS Storm Survey Team determined that an EF-1 tornado, with wind speeds up to 105 mph, occurred north of Vaucluse in Aiken County, SC on Thursday, 2/6/20. The tornado began just beyond a perimeter trail on the southwest side of Stable View Farm. The tornado continued northeast across the farm where it snapped and uprooted numerous pine trees. The tornado caused minor roof damage to a barn, overturned a detached semi trailer, and destroyed 5 stables that were constructed of aluminum and hard vinyl along Springfield Church Road. The tornado then continued |northeast, crossing Westo Road, then causing damage around a house on Smith Lane where it overturned a small equipment trailer and a small RV trailer which then landed on top of an SUV. There was minor roof damage to the house along with numerous snapped and uprooted pine trees around the property. The tornado then lifted as it crossed a field on the north side of Smith Lane. Additional straight-line wind damage in the form of a few snapped or uprooted pine trees was observed northeast along Indian Springs Road to Old Lawson Road. The tornado was on the ground for approximately 1.15 miles and had a path width of around 75 yards at its widest point.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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